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How To Easily Start A Soup Club With Your Friends

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I have received a lot of questions about my Soup Club and how it works. Now is the perfect time to form one of your own with your friends. I am going to share how to easily start your own soup club. With social activities limited at the moment, connecting over good, homemade food just feels good. Something we all need right now. This is an activity that you can safely plan and execute abiding by social distancing practices. This post contains affiliate links.
my Soup Club was about to start up again and I got lots of questions about how it works. I am going to give you all the details you need to Easily Start A Soup Club with Your Friends. A club like this one can work well while adhering to social distancing. It would be easy to set up an outdoor exchange of your soups until it’s safe to do otherwise.

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  • Why did I start my Soup Club?
  • How does it work?
  • How to start a soup club?
  • [Tweet “It’s “souper” easy to start your own #SoupClub”]
  • A few of my past favorite soups:
  • Spicy Thai Tofu Noodle
  • 5 Ingredient Creamy Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
  • Tuscan Tomato Tortellini Soup
  • Connecting with your friends and family over food just feels good. We can all use a little feeling good right now. Ready to start your own Soup Club? Let me know how it goes. 

Why did I start my Soup Club?

We are runners and when we aren’t eating we are talking about food and cooking and fueling for running. Throw in the fact that we are all super busy moms it just seems like a natural fit. That’s how my Soup Club was born!

How does it work?

We have a group of 10-12 friends who are divided into 2 groups of 4-6. There will always be one or two that can’t make it. We are divided into “vegetarian” and “non-vegetarian”. Some people rotate between the two groups. It’s easy to set up groups that would be gluten free or whole 30 for example to meet the needs of your specific members.

Each person will prepare soup to give to the other 3-4 people in their group. We meet up once a month to swap soups with the other people in our group. Everyone uses the same size containers ( 1quart) that can be frozen or used right away. The next month you come back with the same containers recycled with the new soups.

how to start a soup club

Each person arrives with their soups, recipes printed out, and any special instructions. Everyone leaves with 3-4 soups for the week.

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How to start a soup club?

Start off by inviting 8-12 friends to join your club. As I mentioned, it’s nice to have some alternates. I have found cooking for 3-4 other people to be the optimal number for each group. Each person makes soup in the same size (1 quart) container that can be frozen and also is reused the following month. No need to get the containers back to the cook, we just reuse them. These work really well.

Next, determine if there are any food allergies or dietary concerns and make sure that everyone is aware of them. We have 2 groups “vegetarian” and “non-vegetarian” which works perfectly for us and also allows some people to switch back and forth between the two.

Set a definite date so that people can commit. We do ours on the first Sunday of the month in the late afternoon. We ask everyone to bring a printed copy of their recipe and any specific reheating instructions.

I suggest starting a FB messenger group with your soup participants so that people can ask questions and share their recipe ideas beforehand. Emails tend to get lost and confusing when you have so many people on a chain and the FB group seems to work best for us.

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It’s “souper” easy to start your own #SoupClub

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A few of my past favorite soups:

Spicy Thai Tofu Noodle

5 Ingredient Creamy Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup

Tuscan Tomato Tortellini Soup

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Connecting with your friends and family over food just feels good. We can all use a little feeling good right now. Ready to start your own Soup Club? Let me know how it goes. 

 

 

 

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Hi I'm Deborah! I spend my days successfully raising a husband & 2 teens in the VA/DC area. I am a lover of all things running & fitness. As a life long vegetarian, I've always been passionate about healthy living & exercise. Looking for partners in crime, I started my own chapter of Moms Run This Town (MRTT) which has grown to over 700 members. I've met so many amazing women who inspire me daily to keep moving forward. You can usually find me running with my crew and training for the next crazy adventure they talked me into. I love to keep up to date on new running & fitness trends. I definitely choose my running gear based on color and love to express my fashion sense while exercising.

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  1. Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home says

    11/09/2016 at 8:49 am

    What a great idea! We used to have a book club…I wonder if my friends would do the soup club!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 9:15 am

      WE love it hope you give it a try it’s fun

  2. Michelle @ Movin' it with Michelle says

    11/09/2016 at 9:14 am

    What a fun idea! We had a soup potluck at work last year and it was a big hit!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 9:19 am

      It is a lot of fun isn’t it?!

  3. Julie @ Running in a Skirt says

    11/09/2016 at 9:21 am

    How much fun! I need to get some girlfriends together to do this!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 9:45 am

      I think you would love it!

  4. Patricia @Sweet and Strong says

    11/09/2016 at 9:38 am

    What a great idea! When I’m not working out literally all I’m thinking and talking about is food, lol! And I love trying and sharing new recipes!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 9:46 am

      I know it’s funny how we all talk about food all the time!

  5. Jen @ Pretty Little Grub says

    11/09/2016 at 9:38 am

    I would have never thought of this idea in a million years but its fabulous! Great way to stock the freezer.

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 9:46 am

      Yes it is! Hope you try it out

  6. Annmarie says

    11/09/2016 at 11:05 am

    This actually does sound like a lot of fun…kinda of like a book club but better because it revolves around food 🙂

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 11:38 am

      Exactly!!

  7. Sarah- A Whisk and Two Wands says

    11/09/2016 at 12:26 pm

    This is such a great idea! I wish we lived closer I’d be in on this club!! I always make big batches of soup so this would be perfect and I love that it would give me a chance to change things up and try new things with a quick and easy soup I can pull from the freezer!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 3:04 pm

      Oh how great would it be to have you in my club?!

  8. Lauren says

    11/09/2016 at 12:40 pm

    I love that you have a soup club!! So cool and such a great idea!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 3:04 pm

      It’s so much fun!

  9. Emily Holdorf says

    11/09/2016 at 1:49 pm

    What a great idea! I always love sharing food with friends 🙂

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 3:05 pm

      Food & friends are the best combo!

  10. Susie @ Suzlyfe says

    11/09/2016 at 2:19 pm

    Cook book and soup clubs are so much fun. This will be perfect for the coming months! You better be posting some recipes!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 3:05 pm

      Don’t you worry! Recipes coming

  11. Chrissy says

    11/09/2016 at 4:55 pm

    I love this idea! I’m so glad you shared how you started this club!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 5:36 pm

      It’s been great so far we all love it

  12. Kimberly Hatting says

    11/09/2016 at 5:02 pm

    I’d just rather have you relocate to sunny (and tropical) Iowa and be my personal chef. What ya say? Seriously, I do not make soup very often and that needs to change. I even have two crock pots, so I have ZERO excuses. Thanks for the kick in the buttocks 😉

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/09/2016 at 5:36 pm

      Ha ha I so wish I could hang out with you how much fun would that be!?

  13. Autumn @AutumnPTW says

    11/09/2016 at 8:13 pm

    Soup is awesome! I love the idea of a soup club, especially this time of year! What a great way to get some new recipes and have something quick on hand!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 12:43 pm

      Yes exactly and it’s social

  14. Abbey Sharp says

    11/09/2016 at 10:04 pm

    This is such a good idea, great article thanks for sharing!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 12:44 pm

      Thanks it’s a fun one

  15. Kate @KateMovingForward says

    11/09/2016 at 10:12 pm

    Um, I freaking love this idea! I did this last year with freezer meals, but soup would be sooo easy and perfect for the colder months! <3

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 12:44 pm

      Oh yes you have to do it!!

  16. Kristy from Southern In Law says

    11/10/2016 at 1:43 am

    This is such a brilliant idea! Now tell me, when you get together to swap soups, do you share soup (or a meal!) together too?

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 12:44 pm

      So usually we just do some snacks and wine but you could!

  17. Mary Beth Jackson says

    11/10/2016 at 5:38 am

    Yes, I am ready! I am so sharing this idea- thanks for blogging about it again 🙂 Some of us need more than one reminder! 🙂

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 1:33 pm

      Ha ha happy to remind!

  18. Nicole @ Fitful Focus says

    11/10/2016 at 7:34 am

    I remember when you did this last year. Such a fun idea!

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 1:33 pm

      We all loved it so much we had to start it again

  19. Amy says

    11/10/2016 at 9:01 am

    Geez. That is soooo much better than a cookie swap. Hmmmm. I wonder if I have the time/energy to do this. Hmmmm.

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/10/2016 at 1:33 pm

      OH yes you do! It’s really not that hard to organize

  20. Kerri Olkjer says

    11/11/2016 at 5:18 pm

    This is such a brilliant idea! Especially this time of year. Cooking clubs just seem like so much fun.

    • Deborah Brooks says

      11/11/2016 at 8:19 pm

      WE have the best time! Food & friends are the best combo

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